Wuthering Heights
4. Thesis - Religion vs. SupernaturalEmily Bronte was born in 1818 at Thorton in Yorkshire. (Huiswerk, Scholieren) She was the fifth of the six children of Reverend Patrick Bronte. Together with her sister Anne, Emily created the fantasyland of Gondal which was part of a toy soldier game that they played with their siblings. Emily later wrote poems about Gondal from which the setting was similar to the setting of her hometown Haworth. In 1837 she became a governess at a girls’ school at Law Hill. There she wrote some poetry. Emily and her sister Charlotte Bronte, studied in Brussels in 1842 because they wanted to start their own school. Their school however never opened. In 1846 Charlotte and Emily published poems, Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Wuthering Heights was published in December 1847. A year later, Emily died of consumption. Charlotte later wrote the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights. (Huiswerk, Scholieren) Wuthering Heights is considered a romantic novel in which love, revenge, death and the supernatural are the
In conclusion, I think that this story should have been a Gothic one verses a Victorian one, because it dealt with the supernatural. I also believe that Emily Bronte kept a childlike innocence touching upon the religion that her father instilled within her. I don’t necessarily agree that Freud’s analysis of Oedipus Rex was correct. I do believe that due to her up bringing in an atrocious boarding school, she was influenced in an unstable way psychologically. 1. A Brief Biography of the Brontes by Christopher Ingham, February 3, 2001 6. Dr. Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis on Emily Brontes’ work http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/WHPsychoanalysis/ 2. Introduction and history of the Bronte family http://www.huiswerk.scholieren.com/uittreksels/print/php3?id=216
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